The training for each session was conducted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) which is located in West Virginia. NW3C provides training for law enforcement professionals and our classes included instruction on a variety of topics including computer forensics, cybercrime, financial crime and intelligence analysis.

NW3C is a non-profit, membership-affiliated organization comprised of state, local, federal and tribal law enforcement, prosecutorial, and regulatory agencies. Its work is funded primarily by grants through congressional appropriations from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and other federal agencies.

Officers attending the classes learned many new skills including how to secure the immediate and surrounding areas and equipment found at the scene of an electronic crime; how to successfully gain access to and collect evidence from electronic media including computers, cellular phones, GPS units and so on, and how to successfully process and recover files of evidentiary interest from electronic media, even when that data has been deleted, hidden or altered.

This comprehensive series of classes is the latest in our police department's ongoing training program to keep our officers and department on the cutting edge of technology and able to efficiently investigate any type of crime that might occur in Helotes.